We demand an end to discriminatory and abusive policing by the NYPD. Identifying reforms and evaluating systemic change should be led and evaluated by affected communities. In NYC, these are primarily low-income communities of color, including: Black and Latino New Yorkers, youth, immigrants, LGBT and gender non-conforming people, women, people who are homeless, people with disabilities, and those perceived to be Muslim. The following demands are NYC-specific, though we are in solidarity with many national demands that have been put forward.

ACCOUNTABILITY for NYPD USE OF EXCESSIVE & DEADLY FORCE, AS WELL AS ABUSE

1)Full accountability through NYPD disciplinary procedures and the criminal justice system for all NYPD officers responsible for killing Eric Garner, Akai Gurley and all officers who brutalize New Yorkers.

2)Department of Justice should convene grand juries to federally indict officers responsible for the killing of Eric Garner, as well as in other NYC cases such as Ramarley Graham. (We are in solidarity with calls for federal charges in the killings of Michael Brown, John Crawford and others).

3)Governor Cuomo should issue an executive order directing the Office of the Attorney General to serve as special prosecutor in cases involving civilians killed by police officers.

4)Governor Cuomo should veto legislation (S7801/A9853) that would allow police unions to make police disciplinary policies subject to contract negotiations. The legislation would undermine the ability of local government officials across New York State to discipline officers engaged in misconduct and brutality.

5)End the NYPD Commissioner’s exclusive authority over disciplinary decisions for officers in cases of abuse, misconduct towards civilians, and excessive or deadly force.

END DISCRIMINATORY AND ABUSIVE NYPD POLICIES & PRACTICES

6)Mayor de Blasio should end broken windows, and other discriminatory and abusive policing practices. This includes hyper-aggressive selective enforcement of low-level offenses, NYPD’s discriminatory arrests for violations (non-criminal offenses), enforcement of possession of small amounts of marijuana; blanket surveillance of Muslim communities and political activists.

7)Mayor de Blasio should work with the City Council to pass the Right to Know Actto protect New Yorkers’ rights and improve daily interactions between NYPD officers and New Yorkers.

8)The Floyd federal stop-and-frisk trial court-appointed monitor Peter Zimroth, the facilitator Judge Ariel Belen, and Mayor Bill de Blasio should ensure that organizations led by and for communities impacted by discriminatory and abusive policing have a formal and structured role in NYPD reform. The Court-appointed Monitor, Facilitator and Mayor’s office should work with Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) to ensure that community organizations help determine what reforms are to be implemented, how they should be implemented, and how they are evaluated.

TRANSPARENCY OF NYPD DISCRIMINATORY ENFORCEMENT AND USE OF EXCESSIVE & DEADLY FORCE

9)The Department of Justice should launch an investigation into broken windows policing and the use-of-force policies and practices of the NYPD.

10)NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure should issue a report on the use of deadly force and other excessive force, to include accounting of the disciplinary outcomes in these incidents over the past two decades.

11)The NYPD should publish quarterly and annual reports of summons and misdemeanor arrests, as well as use of force, to include demographic data such as race, gender, age, precinct, etc. (We are also in solidarity with national calls for a federal database on use of force and police killings).